4 small CIMs with a custom speed reducer for each, driving custom
omniwheels like
this and
this. A fun summer 2005 project for learning about holonomic drive, but not an effective propulsion scheme for Aim High.
Like most other holonomic robots we were very maneuverable, but too easily pushed off-target.
Here is a shot of our robot in action against a good opponent.
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Richard Wallace
Mentor since 2011 for FRC 3620 Average Joes (St. Joseph, Michigan)
Mentor 2002-10 for FRC 931 Perpetual Chaos (St. Louis, Missouri)
since 2003
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)